# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kees-koolen
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:03:39.608Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kees-koolen"
name: "Kees Koolen"
slug: "kees-koolen"
description: "Kees Koolen is a Dutch rally raid racer and businessman. Koolen participated in various rally raid competitions in a variety of vehicles. Koolen also was the CEO of Booking.com. Currently he is the Chairman/CEO of Koolen Industries: a Dutch clean energy conglomerate."
tagline: "Dutch rally raid racer and businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kees_Koolen_(2016).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1965-08-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.74
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.816056
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "كيس كولين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kees_Koolen"
    title: "Kees Koolen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kees_Koolen"
    title: "Kees Koolen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kees_Koolen"
    title: "Kees Koolen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kees_Koolen"
    title: "Kees Koolen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28497885"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump